Everyone dislikes selfish people

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Everyone dislikes selfish people, yet we are all selfish. No one is without selfishness; philosopher Hume once said, "Human nature is selfishness." Selfishness is the gene of life. In his book *The Selfish Gene*, the renowned British evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins further analyzed the selfishness of organisms from the perspective of the essence of life and genes.
He pointed out that "a prominent characteristic of the successful gene is ruthless selfishness," and that "we and all other animals are machines created by genes," thus concluding that "people are born selfish."
Although his conclusion has been controversial, it does not affect our understanding of human selfishness. What we want to discuss is why, in life, some people's selfishness is not particularly annoying and is easily understood and accepted,
while others' slightest display of selfishness is unbearable and evokes strong negative emotions.
Clarifying this issue requires a new understanding of selfishness.



人人都討厭自私的人，但我們又個個都自私。沒有人不自私，哲學家休漠曾說「人性就是自私」。
自私是生命的基因。英國著名的演化理論家理查．道金斯在其《自私的基因》一書中更從生命的本質，
著眼於基因，對生物體的自私進行了分析，他指出“成功基因的一個突出特性就是無情的自私性“，
而”我們以及其他一切動物都是基因創造的機器“，從而得出了“人們生來就是自私的”結論。
儘管他的結論引起爭議，但並不影響我們對人的自私的認識。我們所要討論的是，
為什麼人生中，有人表現出來的自私，並不特別討厭，讓人容易理解接受，
而另有一些人表現了一點點自私，就讓人受不了，
引起強烈的反感情緒。釐清這個問題，需要我們對自私有一個新的體會。